Events

UXPA Kansas City hosts skills workshops, panels, lectures, design critiques, career events, and more! Topics range from the latest trends in UX, to research and theory, to how to build UX practices for your business or organization. Many events are free and virtual.

monthly networking & happy hour

Typically the third Wednesday of each month, 4-5pm – Online

UXPA KC Happy Hours can go in almost any direction. Games, skillshares, cool UX tips and tricks, and knowledge-sharing about the KC area tech community – it all depends on who shows up!Grab a beverage, kick back and join the conversation!

free to register

upcoming events

Check back here for upcoming event info and links to register.

past events

The Write Partners: How to Work with a UX Writing Team
May 18, 2021
This talk will share best practices for collaborating, what every writer wants their design partner to know, why writers love style guides, and what to do if you don't have access to a writer. Plus, lots and lots of questions and conversations.
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Consumer vs. Enterprise Design: A Panel Discussion
April 21, 2021
What is the difference between designing for enterprise vs. designing for consumer? If you are thinking about choosing a career path in one or the other, or are just interested in hearing about the differences in design, our panelists will let you in on their unique design process for each.
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Robust UX Research Planning
March 24, 2021
A UX research plan is what turns your raw curiosity into a professional, tactical, and strategic exploration of a topic. With a solid and robust research plan, you can tackle projects with confidence, meet deadlines, and please stakeholders.
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Empathic Design in Product Teams
February 16, 2021
This talk explores new empathic methods to capture the raw emotionality and depth of people's problems. And how to integrate this emotionality into the heart of a team building new products. How do we become more intentional when designing around human emotion? How do we include empaths and highly sensitive people (HSP) in our team? What is an HSP? And how do we engage with HSP type customers to learn faster and more deeply.”
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People-First Culture + People-First Design
November 16, 2020
We're excited to have Justin Dauer present for UXPA Kansas City! Justin is a designer, speaker and the author of the celebrated book Cultivating a Creative Culture. Justin speaks internationally on culture and design, he is the Vice President of Human-Centered Design and Development at bswift and is a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Finding Our Way: The 2020 Kansas City UX Experience
September 30, 2020
Chris Jones is a Product design lead with FanThreeSixty in Kansas City. Chris will lead a three part discussion and brainstorm on what we as designers in Kansas City know, feel and can do as a result of our learnings in 2020.
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(How) Does Fiction Inform Design?
June 25, 2020
What films or fiction inform the design work you do, and why might that matter?
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Decoding Web Accessibility
May 25, 2020
In this presentation, Andrew Patterson—software developer for Emfluence—will share his knowledge and expertise on accessibility design and best practices.
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Book Swap & UX Happy Hour
April 28, 2023
Share your favorite UX resources at happy hour!
UX Futures | KC Design Week
April 20, 2023
UX Futures is a special event organized and presented by UXPA-KC for KC Design Week!
The Future of Interaction: Designing User Experiences for AR/MR and VR
March 23, 2023
An exciting webinar focuses on designing immersive experiences for augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR)
Build Your Own Ladder: How to Shape Your Career as a Product Designer
November 17, 2022
Kansas City area designers will share their journeys from being brand-new to the field, to becoming established UX practitioners
The Art of Feedback: A VIRTUAL UX PORTFOLIO REVIEW
October 19, 2022
A virtual portfolio critique with two industry experts.
Be Brave: A Design Thinking Workshop
July 25, 2022
In this workshop, Rachel Beser Brookes and Nevin Joyce use a design scenario to guide participants through a few different brave methodologies.
Better Design Through Games: Using Playtesting to Improve Accessibility and UX
June 22, 2022
In this workshop, Angie Brunk and Dan Ireton will walk us through some techniques they’ve developed to explore accessibility in User Experience using games.
Creating an Accessibility Minded UX Culture
May 23, 2022
In this conversation, Ted Gies (Web Accessibility and UX leader for Elsevier) will share examples of “walking the walk” on accessibility.

recorded events

You can watch recordings of some past events on our YouTube channel.